Maureen Foster's book on Under the Skin was an inspiration for Visible Darkness: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer and so I'm republished this episode which was originally broadcast two years ago. Darkness Visible is available from Sticking Place books at a discount for the UK and US here . And from all good book dealers for the rest of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Xan Brooks has been a film critic and journalist for decades, hosting the ground-breaking Film Weekly for The Guardian along with Jason Solomons. He's now a novelist with The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times and his new book The Catchers, available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
A podcast to accompany the release of my book Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, available HERE Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest , his films blend surreal intensity with razor-sharp formal control. But Glazer’s world doesn’t stop at the cinema screen-it extends into commercia...
Buy a copy here . New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio Leone From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of Am...
To celebrate the publication of Darkness Visible The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer I talk with Kaleem Aftab about Glazer's feature film debut Sexy Beast . To buy the book, click here or visit any site where books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Novelist and film academic Sunny Singh introduces us to the world of Bollywood. From its origins in theatre and the silent era to the present day blockbusters, we discuss how Bollywood has responded to changes in India and the world and the context in which it is best enjoyed. Noisy, with lots of friends, family and interaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For anyone aspiring to direct, or actually direct, or simply interested in the process of direction and production of films and TV, Rob Spera's Field Manual is an indispensable book. A pocket full of seventy maxims which will open your eyes and gladden the heart with its observations on the art and ethics of filmmaking. Rob has directed dozens of features and TV shows. Check out his website here , where you can also buy a copy of the book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...
We talk about the Czech film festival, the prize winners, including Miro Remo's Better Go Mad in the Wild, Bidad, Broken Voices and many others. we also pay our respects to the festival community and our lost colleague Ásgeir H Ingólfsson whose words can be found here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is a classic episode from way back at the start of Writers on Film. It features Tom Shone talking about his book The Nolan Variations and refusing my suggestion to change the title to The Nolan Twisters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
D. Harlan Wilson’s Strangelove Country is a deft, innovative study of Stanley Kubrick’s relationship with science fiction that explores how the genre shaped his cinematic identity and how that identity reshaped the genre. Focusing on Kubrick’s futurist trilogy— Dr. Strangelove , 2001: A Space Odyssey , and A Clockwork Orange —as well as his collaboration with Steven Spielberg on A.I. Artificial Intelligence , Wilson takes a unique approach that is at once scholarly and defiant of academic stodge...
Julia Seabaugh is a writer who has covered the comedy scene for years. She has written A Tight Twenty and Ringside at Roast Battle and has produced a new documentary on Marc Maron, of WTF Podcast fame called "Are We Good?" Find out more about her work here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Novelist and writer Jarett Kobek talks about his book on Kenneth Anger's seminal art film Invocation of My Demon Brother. The film can be seen here . The book can be ordered here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Christna Juerling Birro is a broadcaster and podcaster and friend of many years. Her podcast Pop Culture Confidential is a must. Listen here . She joins me to talk all things Cannes. The final awards, the experiences on the Croisette and her own career as a journalist and film critic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Critics Savina Petkova and Maja Korbeka join me to talk Sentimental Value, A Simple Accident and Resurrection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We talk Alpha, Splitsville and Eddington. Thomas’ YouTube channel is available here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We are talking about Wes Anderson’s Phoenician Scheme and Kristen Stewart’s Chronology of Water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In our second report from Cannes Film Festival we talk Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson with IONFilm critic, Nicholas Bell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thomas Schultz joins me to review the first few days of Cannes, including Amelie Bonnin’s Leave One Day, Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, Dominic Moll’s Dossier 137 and Oliver Laxe’s Sirat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design Walter Murch The triple-Oscar winner of the Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The English Patient presents a masterclass on movies and how they are made. Buy Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Buy the book SIGNED here. A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini from a prominent critic and film historian. Based on extensive research and original reporting, including interviews with friends and collaborators, Gandolfini is a detailed and nuanced appraisal of an enduring artist. More than a decade after his sudden passing, James Gandolfini still exerts a powerful pull on television and film enthusiasts around the world. His charismatic port...
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Buy Travels in the Cities of Cinema: Conversations with Ehsan Khoshbakht here. Jonathan Rosenbaum stands as one of the most eminent film critics in the English-speaking world. After working for Sight and Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin in London in the 1970s, he served for two decades as chief film critic for the Chicago Reader . Hailed as “one of the best” by Jean-Luc Godard, who compared him to James Agee and André Bazin, Rosenbaum is known for his incisive, thought-provoking polemics, which h...
I was delighted to talk with Carlo about the book he wrote with Daniele Villa Terrence Malick Rehearsing the Unexpected From the book: "Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick has only made 5 films, but they are distinctive in their beauty. This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick. The purpose behind the book is to introduce readers to the extraordinary universe of his film-making and to aid the...
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks , MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. His book Frames of Minds uncovers a cinematic language of psychiatry. By taking chances to portray mental illness, filmmakers aim to achieve a sense of reality, and provide catharsis for viewers through the act of dramatization. Ultimately, the history of psychiatry in film is a history of the public perception of medicine, and the ways psychiatry is understood by directors, writers, actors, and audi...
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The author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham talks the director and his legacy. Buy the book here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ian Cooper has written widely on a host of subjects, but today we're focusing on two of his books which are nevertheless interrelated: Charles Manson and the Family , and Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Marya E. Gates is a writer and critic and in her new book Cinema Her Way she collects a series of interviews with a host of visionary directors. It is available here. Visit also Marya's website here. The Substack mentioned in our conversation can be read here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Barry Forshaw joins me to talk all things gothic cinema, books, crime, noir, Hammer, folk horror, as well as coming from Liverpool and not being interested in football (the true horror). Barry is a writer on many years and many books. In British Gothic Cinema, he celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field, with every key film discussed from its beginnings in...
